MPEG LA

MPEG LA

(MPEG LA, LLC, Denver, CO, www.mpegla.com) The organization that offers joint licenses and collects royalties for patents necessary for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and other technologies. For example, in the MPEG-2 license, 23 companies hold more than 600 essential patents. In 2004, more than 700 hardware and software companies were current MPEG-2 licensees. See MPEG.

MPEG-2 became the most successful standard in consumer electronics history producing nearly $4 trillion in worldwide product sales, and the solution pioneered by MPEG LA became the template for making intellectual property rights around patent thickets available and affordable to everyone.

According to the complaint, Compaq manufactures and markets PC's that use patent-protected MPEG-2 methods and devices without having entered into licenses with the individual patent holders or the portfolio license offered by MPEG LA.

DENVER -- MPEG LA, LLC ("MPEG LA") is pleased to announce that MPEG LA and VOXX International (formerly known as Audiovox Corporation) have settled their litigation in the State of New York (see http://www.

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